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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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align="left" border="0">Bad cluster in HDD </H3>
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<p><strong>From Thomas Vavra on Wed, 15 Apr 1998 </strong></p>
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Hi there!
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I got a neat, fast 1,6GB HDD (WD IDE) with one "bad cluster" as DOS
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calls it. Is there any way in using it for linux(marking the cluster as
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bad or something like that?)</strong></p>
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" alt="(!)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">No
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problem. Linux distributions come with a program named '<tt>badblocks</tt>'
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it handles this for you. The best way to do it is to let '<tt>mkfs</tt>'
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call badblocks using its internally supported switches.
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For ext2 filesystems you'd use <tt>mke2fs</tt> or <tt>mkfs.ext2</tt>
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(usually links to the same file). Just add the <tt>-c</tt> switch to
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the command when you invoke it (and read the man page for details).
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If you already have an ext2fs on a drive and you suspect that new bad
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blocks have developed (for example you've dropped the drive or the
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machine's been through an earthquake) you can run <tt>e2fsck</tt> (or
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<tt>fsck.ext2</tt> as it may be linked) with the <tt>-c</tt> switch.
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Like I said, easy!
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(Naturally I suggest you do these from single user mode, and do
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proper backups).
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 28 May 1998</H5>
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